translating a quote

[villers14]

ive got a quote that i need translating into latin.. will anybody be able to help?
It is...
"Learn from yesterday,
Live for today,
Dream for tomorrow."
Thanks in advance

[naz_nomad]

Perceptum ex yesterday , Ago pro hodie , Somnium pro cras

[Ethel]

Problem is 'yesterday' is from Middle English, not Latin.

Babelfish obviously couldn't translate that word.

[burnhal]

agree with that! the online translator I looked at couldnt translate yesterday either!!!!

[Ethel]

And I'm not sure about the use of 'pro' in the sense of 'for' used in the quote.

[Quizmonster]

Disce heri, vivi hodie, somnia cras.

[Ethel]

Hurrah for Quizmonster.

Again.

:)

[Quizmonster]

I should have pointed out in my response above that I do not expect Cicero or Catullus would ever have expressed the thoughts as I did!
In other words, I make no claim for it to be 'correct' Latin...rather it is just the appropriate words strung together. I am far from certain that the 'day' words are in the correct case-form, for example, which should be dative. I am aware, though, that the learn/live/dream words are certainly imperatives...ie instructions/orders to do these things...and not just nouns.
Perhaps someone who really knows will come along to tidy it all up for me. I last sat in a Classics classroom fifty years ago and the old memory is far from infallible!

(Thanks for another kind comment, Ethel, but it may be less than fully justified!)

[Clanad]

Certainly in line with Q's observation re: being recognized by second century Romans, I would offer, only pedantically:
Cognosco de heri, in diem vivere, alucinor adopto cras...

[villers14]

thank you all very much, its for a tattoo. I Just wanted to have some idea before i went and asked my old latin teacher... as we didnt really get on ...

[Quizmonster]

If you get an accurate answer soon, Villers, do come back here and tell us what it was. Schools close for the summer in a day or two - assuming you are in England - so make sure you catch your old teacher before he disappears for a month in Kephalonia!

(Your version certainly sounds better than mine, C!)